timelines

I love math and I love almost anything to do with numbers (except for worrying about my budget of course). This love of numbers includes a love of timelines as well...I love to count down to exciting things. Here are a few of my current countdowns: 1 and 1/6 days until Friday! 8 days until a 3 day weekend! 3 weeks until my favorite holiday! 7 weeks until I go home for Christmas and see my family! 10.5 months until my baby sister's wedding! Yep...you read that last one right...my little sissy is getting married!!! She got engaged during my unintentional two month blog break so I never got a chance to mention it. I have several weddings of very dear friends and family members coming up too (congrats to Elyse and Jarah, Jordann and Austin, Megan and Micah, and Amanda and Nik!!!), but this is the most life changing. The boys in my family are now outnumbering the girls. My dad started with a wife and 3 daughters. We had control. When Lynsey had to go and get married and have two boys they became an equal match. Now that Dave's joined the bunch they are one up on us. Seriously though, can you believe it? I swear she was just in first grade walking home by herself because she didn't feel like waiting for Lynsey to stop talking to her friends. Over the last few summers we had to share a small room with twin beds while on family vacation at the beach. I used to think this was a bad thing and would dream of the day we would get married and get our own rooms like big kids. Now when I think about future beach vacations, it makes me sad that my days of sharing a child's room with my little sister are over. Melissa, no matter how much we argued as kids (okay and as adults sometimes too) I cherish the time we spent growing up together. I have especially fond memories of the last few years living at home together as adults. I love you infinitely and am so excited for your future. Dave, even though you're tipping the boy to girl ratio, welcome to the family. We can be tough to deal with when all the girls start talking at once but you'll learn to deal. Justin can give you some tips.